this afternoon, i went to bug my web hosts' forums while waitin for more advice here. they suggested the same thing, about the web space.
this is my stat line (according to the cpanel of my account)
MySQL Databases 1 / 1
Disk usage 556.56 Megabytes
SQL Disk usage 176.80 Megabytes
Disk space available 243.44 Megabytes
Bandwidth usage (current month) 15737.63 Megabytes
shows that i have a buncha space left, though i have had problems in the past, where i'm put on a smaller server than what i'm allowed. i'll havta check into that, i guess.
i'll also ask them about the myisamchk thing (cuz lunarpages.com hosts it, not me)
thanks for all the help with this stuff, guys.
sucha pain when the boards collapse -- i feel so helpless!